Apple M1 GPU vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking461not rated
Place by popularity76not in top-100
Power efficiency23.44no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)no data
GPU code nameTiger Lake Xeno data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 August 2020 (4 years ago)10 November 2020 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores968
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1350 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Wattno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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DirectX12_1no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 GPU has an age advantage of 2 months, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs and Apple M1 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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